English Verb Phrases Flashcards

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Take off

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(remove)
He takes off his shoes
(leave / depart)
He took off (from the house)
We are about to take off / the airplane has taken off

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Take up

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(take/use/occupar)
She took up all the room in the backseat of the car *with her luggage

(start doing something)
She decided to take up singing as a new hobby

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Take after

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(be similar to a parent)
he takes after his father with the sense of humor

he will take that class after the other one.
he will take it after.

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Take in

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(absorb experience)
At the top of the mountain, he took in the scenery
“I’m just taking it all in”
He took in the moment (when they won/lost the game)
(absorb information)
It was difficult to take in all the information from the lecture.

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5
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Get up

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Get up from bed/couch/lying down
I have to get up early tomorrow for work
GET UP!

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Get by

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survive / deal with something
“even with a small salary, they manage to get by”

move past someone or something
“I need to get by you”

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Get along

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have a good relationship with
“They get along well with their new neighbors.”
llevarse bien

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Get over

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recover from
It took her a week to get over the flu.

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Make up

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Invent or lie
“He had to make up a story to explain why he was late.”

to improvise, not have a plan (more rare)
“I make/made it up as I went”

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Make out

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See or hear clearly
“I could barely make out the name on the sign in the photo”

to kiss strongly
“they were making out on the couch”

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9
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Make off

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Steal or Take - implies motion
“the theif made off with the money before anyone noticed”

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10
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Make do

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Manage with limited resources
like “get by with”
“We’ll have to make do with the supplies we have.”
“We’ll have to get by with with the supplies we have.”

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Come up

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To imagine/invent
“He came up with a new idea”

To be mentioned or arise
“Your name will come up during the meeting”
“Your name came up during the meeting”

**to happen in the near future **
“the next topic is coming up soon”

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Come across

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Find / Find without looking
“He came across an old newspaper article mentioning his grandfather”

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Come around

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Change your mind (slowly)
“he came around to selling the car”

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12
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Come down

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Decrease or Fall
The price of gas has come down
Get sick with (rare)
He came down with COVID

12
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Go out

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To leave
They went out to dinner
To be dating someone (highschool)
He is going out with her

13
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Go over

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Review or Examine
They went over the paperwork

To not understand
The joke went over his head

14
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Go off

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Initiate / Explode
the bomb went off in the building
the alarm went off earlying in the morning

Start yelling at someone (casual)
he went off on her after she made a mistake

15
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Go on

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Continue or Happen
please go on… (tell me more)
What is going on (happening) here?

16
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Turn up

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Increase
Can you turn up the volume?
Appear
She turned up (arrived) late to the party

16
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Turn down

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Lower
Please turn down the music
Reject or Say No To Something
He turned down the job offer

16
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Turn out

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To Attend
Thousands of people turned out (attended) for the concert.
The event had a good turn out. (a lot of people attended)

Result
Having to move turned out to be a good thing.

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Turn off

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Disable / Remove Power
He turned off the TV

To Make Someone Not Like Something Anymore
His attitude at work really turned us off

the opposute, “turn on” is always sexual*

To Make Someone Not Be Attracted Anymore
It was a turn off when he started being aggressive

17
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Break down

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Stop Functioning
the car always breaks down when I drive to work

Start Crying
She broke down in tears during the speech

18
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Break up

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Come apart / Break into pieces
They broke up the gang
The cookie broke up in the bag

End a Relationship
they decided to break up after five years

19
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Break into

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Break and then enter with force
He broke into the bank vault
They broke into the house

19
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Break out

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Escape
The prisoners tried to break out of jail

Start Suddenly
a fire broke out in the building
a riot broke out in the streets

19
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Set up

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Establish or Arrange
“they set up a new business”
“can you set up the new computer”
“can you set up the meeting”

20
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Set off

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Cause something to happen
“the smoke set off the alarm”
“the thief set off the alarm”
Start a journey/adventure
“he set off on his trip to Asia”

20
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Set back

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Delay or Disrupt
“the project was set back by several weeks due to weather”
“the project suffered a set back”

20
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Set in

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Begin or Become Established
“once the cold weather set in, it was hard to go outside”

21
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Run out

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Use up
“we have run out of tortas”

21
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Run into

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Collide
“the car ran into the pole”

“Meet Unexpectedly”
“we ran into each other at the cafe”

21
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Run across

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Discover by chance
“I ran across an interesting article while browsing the internet”

21
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Look after

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Take Care Of
“can you look after my dog while I’m away”

22
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Look up

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Search for information
“I’ll look up his phone number”

22
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Look forward to

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Anticipate something happening
“I’m looking forward to my time off from work”
“I look forward to my time off from work”

22
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Look into

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Investigate or Research
“we need to look into the problem to find a solution”